New Right Republicans

The New Right Republicans was a faction of the Republican Party that emerged at the time of the 1964 United States presidential election. The New Right Republicans embraced classical liberal economics, social conservatism, and ardent anti-communism, making them popular among many disaffected white southerners who had feld betrayed by the Democratic Party's support for the Civil Rights movement. Goldwater won the Deep South states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina in addition to his home state of Arizona, and although he lost the election, his movement became strong within the Republican Party. His movement soon displaced the Rockefeller Republicans and the Taftite Republicans as the dominant faction within the Republican Party, and it developed a more populist and Christian right tone after the election ended. In 1980, the New Right's champion Ronald Reagan won the US presidency, and he was hailed as a conservative hero. Since the 1980s, the New Right Republicans have broken down into smaller factions, including the neoconservative Establishment Republicans, the Conservative Republicans, and the populist Tea Party movement.